Railway construction.



L. & T. B. OLIVER & G. W. WEST.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, I916.

Patented D80. 5, 1916.

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LAVAN OLIVER, TILDEN IB. OLIVER, AND GORGE W. VJEST, OF NORTH PLEASANTON, TEXAS.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 5, 191$.

Application filed May 5, 1916. Serial No. 95,665.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LAVAN OLIVER, TIL- DEN B. OLIVER, and Gonsn WV. Wnsi, citizens of the United States, residing at North Pleasanton, in the county of Atascosa and State of Texas, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Railway Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionrelates to improvements in railway construction.

In carrying out our invention it is our purpose to produce a metallic tie for railway rails which shall be of a simple, cheap and novel construction and which shall have means associated therewith whereby the rails can be easily and quickly secured thereon.

It is a further purpose of the invention to construct a metallic rail tie having means associated therewith whereby the rails may be secured thereon and further whereby the meeting ends of two rails may be connected in a solid and durable manner without the employment of angle bars, fish plates or analogous devices or without the employment of the usual nuts and bolts for connecting the said rail ends.

It is also our purpose to produce a metallic tie having the general shape of an ordinary Lbeam, and which has its web, upon both of its sides, at points below which the rails rest, provided with bracing ribs, so constructed and arranged as to receive rail supporting members and to connect the said members between the ties, so that the rails will be supported throughout the length of the track; th ties held properly spaced and sustained against movement toward or away from each other, and also whereby a considerably less number of ties will be required upon the track, as the supporting members may be of any desired length.

With the above and other objects in view the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating rails supported upon ties and connecting members between the ties as constructed in accordance with our invention, Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view taken through the webs of two of the ties, Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one end of one of the ties, Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through the head and base flanges of one end of the said tie, Fig. 5 is a plan view of the tie with the rail securing members removed, Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line with the sustaining or locking member of one of the rail securing elements, the said element being associated with the tie, Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the rail engaging elements looking toward the underface thereof, Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the rail supports or chair members arranged between two of the ties, and Fig. 9 is a similar view illustrating a modified form of the rail support or chair member.

Each of the ties A includes a flat head 1, a flat base 2, and a centrally arranged connecting plate or web 3 for the head and base. The web 3, at the ends of the ties, is cut inwardly, the opposite walls provided by the cuts being parallel, but being rounded to their connection with the head and the base.

Formed integrally with the ties and disposed preferably centrally beneath the rail seats of the ties are vertically disposed brace members 4. These brace members are disposed opposite each other upon the web of the tie and are each provided with a central vertically disposed slot or channel that is of a greater depth at the upper portion thereof than at. the lower so that the said lower portion of the channel is formed with a lug or shoulder 5.

The head 1 of each of the ties, adjacent the ends thereof, is for a determined dis tance thickened, as at 6, and the rail seat 7 which is arranged centrally of the said thickened portion is disposed a suitable distance below the top proper as clearly shown in the drawings. The said thickened portions 6 of the head 1, to the opposite sides of the rail seat 7 are formed with transverse channels or depressions 88, and the opposite walls provided by these depressions are inclined away from each other as clearly shown in the drawings. These channels are wider at one of their ends than at their other end so that the same will receive wedgeshaped tongues 9 provided upon the underforce 'the'said rails centrally upon the rail seat, 7', while the flanges 13 of the rail en-' gagingmembers inward of the said ribs 11 overlying and engagmg with the upper faces of the :base'flanges of the rail, hold the' said rails down uponthe rail seats and thus the members 10 effectively lock the rails to the ties. The m mbers 10 areprovided with vertically disposed wedge-shaped slots 14 'Whiclrre'gister with similar slots 15 in the horizontal Walls provided by the grooves 8 and these openings 15 are arranged over the web of the tie and are of a greater length than the thickness of the said web. If desired the web at the portion thereof which c communicates with the openings/15v may be beveled inopposite directions so as to split or dividethe ductile wedge shaped shanks 17 of the headed retaining members 18 and thus effectively hold the members 10 upon the ties. A v V It is one of the-purposes of the present invention to provide means for connecting or spacing the ties as well as for supporting the rails between the ties so as to reduce the vnumber of ties employed as well as to form a firm bed or support for the rails, and therefore we provide rail supporting members B each of which includes a head 17, a centrally disposed'web 20 and if desired abase 21. "if, 'howeve'ig'the' base is to'be dispensed with :the web may be widened and hayeits lower edge notched in a line with the. ends of its head. By reference to the drawings itfWlll be noted that the Web 20 I projects beyond the head and base of the 'chair' or. support and also that the upper iedgelof'the web from. the ends of the head is cut longitudinally in a line below the fisaidhead, whereby the web'may be snugly V 1 Copies of this patent may be obtained for "received beneath the head'of thetie'anol also "be snugly received upon'the base of the tie.

The 'Web has its ends extending beyond its head and base a distance equaling the width of the head and base of the tie to the opposite sides of the web thereof, and the ends of we claim is :v

In a railway construction, metal ties including each a fiat head, a fiat base, a central web connecting the head and base, rails resting upon the ties, means for securing the rails to the ties, verticallv disposed brace members arranged in pairs upon the outer faces of each of the webs, a shoulder between each pair of brace members, members having head portions and angular webs which project beyond the head, the ends of the said members being notched and adapted to be received between each pair of brace members of adjacent ties and to engage with the shoulders in the said brace members whereby the heads of the said members are retained flush with the tops of the ties to underlie and support the rails between the ties.

In testimony whereof we afiiX our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

LAVAN ALIVER. TILDER B. OLIVER. GORGE WV. EST.

lVit nesses T. W. MYERS, D. B. WILLIAMS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 6. 

